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Bike companies that are (somehow) still around

Which bike company still in business is the most surprising?

  • Ellsworth

    Votes: 46 52.9%

  • Jamis

    Votes: 2 2.3%

  • KHS

    Votes: 5 5.7%

  • Marin

    Votes: 3 3.4%

  • Ventana

    Votes: 1 1.1%

  • Foes

    Votes: 8 9.2%

  • Cove

    Votes: 3 3.4%

  • Orange

    Votes: 3 3.4%

  • Cannondale

    Votes: 3 3.4%

  • Corsair

    Votes: 13 14.9%
  • Total voters
    87
CheetaMike

CheetaMike

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Jm_ said:
After the linkage ripped out of the frame when I did the stadium jump at Northstar?

I think we reamed it out and put in some bigger bearings and somehow got ahold of another dogbone or two. They didn't really design the high-leverage parts for high-leverage.
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I had to machine my own replaceable derailleur hangers for my Prowler , I was selling them for awhile several others ended up breaking theirs as well .
 
CheetaMike

CheetaMike

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Jm_ said:
If you are going to go there,

Hanebrokemyleg, er, I mean Hanebrink.
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my buddy has a LT8 hanging in his collection , along with a 99 Super 8 , and a 99 Dirt Works Piranha that has never been built up , of yeah the S8 is Avy speced , with a Brake Therapy floater , and the Boxxer 151 is dialed as well . He had a Avy 8" fork on the front all Ti speced .
 
Jm_

Jm_

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CheetaMike said:
my buddy has a LT8 hanging in his collection , along with a 99 Super 8 , and a 99 Dirt Works Piranha that has never been built up , of yeah the S8 is Avy speced , with a Brake Therapy floater , and the Boxxer 151 is dialed as well . He had a Avy 8" fork on the front all Ti speced .
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I liked that Dirt Works frame at the time. There was another company making something similar at the same time, but with 1" square chain and seat stays. Can't remember who it was, but the bike was Battle Mtn or Battle Axe or something.
 
time-bomb

time-bomb

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Jm_ said:
I liked that Dirt Works frame at the time. There was another company making something similar at the same time, but with 1" square chain and seat stays. Can't remember who it was, but the bike was Battle Mtn or Battle Axe or something.
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Was it Chuck?

All that Proline needs is a Stratos El Jefe and it would be the perfect model for that era.
 
CheetaMike

CheetaMike

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Jm_ said:
I liked that Dirt Works frame at the time. There was another company making something similar at the same time, but with 1" square chain and seat stays. Can't remember who it was, but the bike was Battle Mtn or Battle Axe or something.
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Patriot or something like that made a bike back in the day that used a snowmobile shock or something similar it had a weird beefie design swingarm and frame

http://patriotbicycles.com/images/img8.jpg one of their BMX frames
 
djjohnr

djjohnr

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Jm_ said:
I liked that Dirt Works frame at the time. There was another company making something similar at the same time, but with 1" square chain and seat stays. Can't remember who it was, but the bike was Battle Mtn or Battle Axe or something.
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I don't remember who made it but I remember seeing it in MBAction. IIRC the bb looked really high even for that time period.
 
jonKranked

jonKranked

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Morewood is apparently still around. There was a span of a few years when their bikes were hot shit, at least here in the Northeast. what happened? their lineup isn't as big as it used to be though.
 
amishmatt

amishmatt

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jonKranked said:
Morewood is apparently still around. There was a span of a few years when their bikes were hot shit, at least here in the Northeast. what happened? their lineup isn't as big as it used to be though.
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Morewood screwed over Morewood USA, started distributing through somebody else and it all went downhill from there. Patrick Morewood left and started Pyga, but Morewood appears to be mounting a comeback of sorts and releasing new frames again this year.
 
jonKranked

jonKranked

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amishmatt said:
Morewood screwed over Morewood USA, started distributing through somebody else and it all went downhill from there. Patrick Morewood left and started Pyga, but Morewood appears to be mounting a comeback of sorts and releasing new frames again this year.
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thanks for the info
 
Jm_

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amishmatt said:
Morewood screwed over Morewood USA, started distributing through somebody else and it all went downhill from there. Patrick Morewood left and started Pyga, but Morewood appears to be mounting a comeback of sorts and releasing new frames again this year.
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They should combine with Orange to become Morange.
 
kidwoo

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CheetaMike

CheetaMike

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oh what about Storm , they had that funky DH rig the H2 or something like that , Outlands had some pretty crazy swingarm designs as well . I think I have a pile of old DIRT mags from the early years will have to flip thru
 
Jm_

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One of the problems here is we are getting into the weeds, where "bike company"=guy with a garage and some jigs. Ok, some were a little more complex than that, but not much, and while it's cool to make bikes, people on the sidelines could see that it takes more than cranking out and selling a few bikes, you have to nail the design so you don't have to make changes, you need customer support, small parts, answering the phone, etc., all kinds of shit that these people couldn't manage to save their life.
 
'size

'size

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CheetaMike said:
oh what about Storm , they had that funky DH rig the H2 or something like that , Outlands had some pretty crazy swingarm designs as well . I think I have a pile of old DIRT mags from the early years will have to flip thru
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storm used a URT design which i never understood why anyone would make a URT DH frame.
outland was the original VPP with the linkage under the BB which then morphed into the mini-link design that SC bought.
 
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CheetaMike

CheetaMike

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'size said:
storm used a URT design which i never understood why anyone would make a URT DH frame.
outland was the original VPP with the linkage under the BB which then morphed into the mini-link design that SC bought.
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a buddy had the 1st 2 versions outland did , lots of fancy milling on the swing arms and linkage , the where made in Washington before SC bought them and co LC the design with Intense .

there is a really good FB page that has tons of images of the early years of full suspension DH frames and such .

The Vintage Downhill MTB page is what it,s called , lots of cool old images from back in the day
 
Jm_

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'size said:
storm used a URT design which i never understood why anyone would make a URT DH frame.
outland was the original VPP with the linkage under the BB which then morphed into the mini-link design that SC bought.
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Semi URT, as URT was Unified Rear Triangle. The BB was on the chainstay, but the rear arrangement was somewhere between a lawill and exaggerated horst link. But yes, it made no sense...nothing really had to back in the 90s.
 
Jm_

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CheetaMike said:
Chumba Wumba ZULU ?
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Nope nope, not that, not the CPC, not the Cliff Cat. This was back around pre-M1 Horst link, but post Mac-strut, if I remember the time frame, 1998-1999ish probably. Configuration like the non-horst link Azonic DH bike, but square stays, kind of like Turner and Chuck used, but bike looked nothing like those, more like the much later Risse Lassen bike, but just not bolt-together.
 
toodles

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Are Brooklyn Machine Works gone now? I think I remember an article where Pharrel bought them or something weird.

Also, the people that ask why FSA are still going - they make the best value headsets around.
 
norbar

norbar

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Jun 7, 2007
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Can we add Diamondback to the list? I don't remember if they ever made a good or even good looking bike
 
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